Show DRAGONS D A G S DRIVE YOU CHAPTER XI continued 18 they were still two days out from sandy hook book when agnes read in the radio news nn an explanation phillp philip linsdale brother of arthur linsdale who had shot himself was indicted with two other officers of his company for misappropriation of trust funds he bad been jailed in chicago and released on a fifty thousand dollar bond another brother emery had bad fled to canada As there were few on the ship few stood on the dock awaiting the landing theres father ra therl 1 said agnes and felt choked as she waved at him her mother saw him and that he be was sate safe wondered whether cash might be lurking elsewhere along the dock to look at her conquered this feeling before the tile gangplank was down and she went to the arms of her husband ue he kissed hissed her and she clung to him then feeling him release tier her she let him go I hello lello light onet one lie he caught his bis daughter and kissed her his w wife I 1 fe watched him tier her eyes never leaving mm him she was trembling from her contact with him lie he turned to her again after he let their daughter go youre ulder cob bob she sald said bluntly yes of course a ear he tried to say lightly but bul ne did not like it all just aldei bub she challenged him aliu she had to demand demana it of him immediately at the very tery moment of meeting nothing else mat mattered in comparison he knew what nhat she meant had tie he become only older through this year of trouble and separation otherwise was he unchanged was bi hac continuing to draw those checks to cash ile he answered her it if she had to ask him there on the dock there she had bad a right to know 1 I suppose im poorer tie ne said and smiled ruefully father said agnes quickly hows bova lee bee dark ones fine light une one 1 I came on account of her bob his wife cast at him gratuitously she knew that her daughter in september was to bear her third child my place seemed to be with her now are you going home with us bob nodded this afternoon you heard about the Ling dales he offered another topic arthur linsdale killing himself beatrice said and caught her breath t 4 you heard about the Lins dales he offered another topic the obe almost told her husband that having heard she had bad hurried home to him and phil indicted and emery in canada do you know chos to defend phil linsdale who said agnes kosiara OS Iara ara lies iles getting a lot to do these days lie he cant take halt half the cases coming to him from women shooting their husbands beatrice asked bob shook his bis head from people never figure would get into trouble and are exceedingly likely unless agnes friend saves them to spend their next ten or twenty years la in leavenworth or some other government jail CHAPTER XII change 1 bee out of tier her house and back home with davis bud and tier her babies it was one thing to contemplate it when you were abroad another to lie ile in your bertli berth on the train and L know now that tomorrow morning your sister to whom this had happened would meet you change A change in father more than that lie he was a year older ana poorer ue he had loht hobt something A confidence fi a certainty changes tor for the worse all of these put but there was a change for the better te r which agnes felt and it played its part in keeping tier iier stirred anil wakeful A change to in cathal omara OS Iara rather in his bis regard it had been declared when her father mentioned him and now DOT the chicago newspapers which by EDWIN BALMER copyright by edwin calmer balmer service agnes had procured in new york made tt it manifest she read about the linsdale affairs and the demand for the return of E emery y linsdale Llos dalo from canada mr gilara promised an answer tomorrow mr omara says this was denied by mr omara OS lara lie he represented and defended men recently cen aly among those first in the city men accused but not yet pronounced guilty men with rich and powerful friends friend 4 who however were themselves helpless to save them and so they hail had sought cathal omara OS lara As the train entered chicago she sought alterations in the physical aspect of the city to correspond to what here had happened there were none when they stopped under the station train shod shed and stepped down then the change was sufficiently declared she saw it first in the face vf it davis she halted on the train step then site she sprang down and went to him and kissed him tier her sister was there she kissed bee all right bee all right of course hello 1 mot her 1 jeb was there tier her father had said he be might be jeb had changed but not enough more ought to have happened to him it so much had happened to davis but she kissed jeb and he kissed her twice and held her she could feel he was excited the hurry burry glen theres no one else here stay with me no now IV but she freed herself from him and turned back to davis and pulled him down to her and kissed hlin him on his tight pressed lips see here jeb complained lies iles married and I 1 think im pretty good to come to meet you you are jeb but she could not feel for him at all had something more happened to davis today agnes asked bee this as soon as she got tier iier sister aside no why said bee and agnes knew he be had broken so gradually that those with him scarcely realized z ed it tier her father did not proceed home with them ue ile and jeb went to their offices and davis departed to his before long they heard baskerville baying a moment later they were before the house and selma stood with a little boy on each side of her waving agnes and her mother were home its a dizzy world observed dee bee loosening tier her clothes and lying back bach on her bed one cant start at anything however praiseworthy at the moment and be sure her enterprise will still be considered creditable when its accomplished you mean said agnes 1 I do my child the world no longer groans for increase it want any more children or cotton or wheat or railroads or any of the good old products and improvements that the best citizens used to pray for youve lovely instincts dart darling 1 the dark one added reaching her hand to her sister its lucky you dont indulge them bee how bow bad are thin bilings gs for us well father probably still has baa a little not much but maybe more than he be ottes thank god jeb got him into a big block of insult insull stuff and been standing up fathers got it at the banks but they give him money on it hell keep going but hes in no shape to put up a quarter millon million to save us again father bought him out 0 of it the original mess but not even father a her can do it now after father paid his debts davis got his new start by borrowing on his bis life insurance find and hes borrowed the limit since then to keep on now lies hes at the end of it our next move I 1 dont know even agnes sense of security was shaken jeb phoned and this was as it had been a year ago I hello fello glen hello this Is old times lord how I 1 like it I 1 im alone in my office and on my private wire so we can talk the matter with you glen chos there Nob odys here then tell we a little of what it means to be back to me its so different jeb not so different ill show you im coming right out to cheer you up 1 I dont want cheering up jeb you certainly do tomorrow then please jeb why the devil tomorrow why not now why she did not know why except that site she could not feel like having him cheer tier her up by reassuring her of his fortune she did not dot feel like meeting his claim to kiss her and hold her her father came home When ll jeb be along light one not tonight ncr her father gazed straight at her all right ile he said your business the talk at the table and later while the family staled together carefully full y avoided discussion of their own situation but it dwelt on others and the Lins dales particularly and this brought mention more than once of their lawyer your friends tackled a tough touch case light one it was nine when cravath announced to agnes sir air omara asks for you on the phone agnes acnes jumped iles hes at phil Lins dales probably her father said watching watch lne her phil certainly leans on your lawyer light one agnes turned slowly and went straight to the phone what was wag he to say to her and she to him ue ile said yesterday morning I 1 rend read at last that you bad landed yo your r mother and you yes res she said ze 50 did what du he mean by at last had aad he be been rending reading the papers all year tor for report of her return this afternoon the papers said you are arc home yes tes so tonight I 1 ani am at one of your neighbors staying there said agnes what was this man to her it was bard for her to speak no im leaving now will you come here agnes returned to her family lies iles coming here she told them tonight demanded her mother now and she left them again and stood near the door at the Lins dales cathal returned frow from the telephone to the study shut off from other rooms where waited the man threatened with nith imprisonment for the rest of his life the room was dark save tor for a cone of yellow light from the shaded lamp over the accounts and records they had examined together over and over and would never finish phil linsdale sat pushed back just beyond the edge of the light going now omara yes sir good night not for a minute oma omara ra glee give me another minute will you sit down again right now ive nothing to say but I 1 cant let you rou go what in hell will I 1 do go over it again with my wife or sit with her and not go over it again and my daugh daughter terl damn it omara 1 you went to college too did you study shakespeare ile he said too many things too well to pat for you you cant forget them 1 I have lived long enough my way of life Is fallen into the sear the yellow leaf know it omara yes sir and that naich should accompany old age as honor love obedience troops of friends I 1 must not look to have me even it if you get me off omara do you suppose my brother was right my brother arthur he should have died hereafter another great line omara macbeth said it of his wife when they told him she was gone she should have died hereafter arthur should have stayed ne ile was far the best of us tie ile was twice me twice my brother emery in canada come tomorrow night early and stay late will you omara cathal drove slowly from the house ue ile could not let the man whom he be had bad left hear him hurrying away agnes at last heard his car she was in white as he had left her a year ago and so he fie saw her 1 I come sooner he said 1 I know she said what was this man to tier her when the sight of him and his voice after a year so stirred her her father asked hows phil linsdale tonight lies iles not changed much since they released him on ball bail and he be burled buried his brother lie he cant be really guilty beatrice Glenel th protested ile he cant be cathal looked at her and thought of long long ago 11 months ago before any of this had happened and it bad been myrtle lorrie who had required defending why lie he said they accuse him of stealing funds mr linsdale would never steal it Is inconceivable lie Is a friend of ours I 1 have known mrs linsdale for years yes said cathal she told me davis said nothing lie ile had risen and shaken hands with cathal and then lapsed into his chair cathal onara omara was changed too it was not that his consequence was increased she felt that but not cot from him it was in the attitude the others tool took toward him there had bad been nothing tonight there could have been nothing like the moment they had bad shared in the breaking storm under the lightning on the shore they remained with her farally family but she did not want him to go he arose however and she went to the door with him there they were alone twill be strange lie he said gazing I 1 down at tier her not to be watching the social columns tomorrow all year ive bought every paper every day for cliance chance of ment li of you now be staying home homec yes said agnes you 1 I would he said quite soberly especially regarding your brother in law davis agnes almost whispered his bis name how did he look to you cathal answered in one word desperate TO BE CONTINUED |